{"id":497,"date":"2017-07-11T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T22:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2017-09-10T15:59:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T21:59:37","slug":"movie-aliens-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/11\/movie-aliens-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Aliens (1986)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Aliens\"Aliens<\/span><\/strong>
\nYear: 1986
\nRating: R
\nLength: 137 minutes \/ 2.28 hours<\/p>\n

While I\u2019m sure a Ridley Scott sequel to his smash-hit, Alien<\/a><\/em> (1979), would be fantastic by any stretch of the imagination, the choice to go with similarly-successful James Cameron in the director\u2019s seat helped to keep the franchise from becoming too stale. Of course, with a sequel appearing seven years after the original, Alien<\/em> had plenty of time to rest on its laurels before the follow-on film came along. Watching Aliens<\/em> (1986) with the knowledge of James Cameron\u2019s other work, it soon becomes apparent that this movie is all his own. After all, if I told you there\u2019s a James Cameron film about space marines invading an alien world to eliminate an alien threat, many of you would think I\u2019m referring to Avatar<\/a><\/em> (2009) and not Aliens<\/em> (1986).<\/p>\n

In the original Alien<\/em>, much of the focus of the film is on survival, let alone how to defeat such an unstoppable creature. For Aliens<\/em>, the tables have turned, and man is now on the offensive, even if they don\u2019t take the threat as seriously as they should. Aliens<\/em> has its moments of terror and horror, but they aren\u2019t nearly as jarring as they are in the original. Instead, the strength of Aliens<\/em> lies in its action as much as it is in its memorable one-liners. From Bill Paxton\u2019s freak out, \u201cGame over, man! Game over!\u201d to Sigourney Weaver\u2019s defiant challenge in the final battle, Aliens<\/em> is more in line with a summer blockbuster than its predecessor ever was.<\/p>\n

Even though both of these films in the Alien<\/em> franchise are exemplary in their own right, one can\u2019t help but notice that they\u2019re almost the same script, even down to the final vanquishing of the titular alien. Sure, both have a different approach to it (of which I almost prefer the robot-suit ending of the sequel), but it ends up being a tad disappointing to basically watch the same events occur again without much deviation from the formula that worked once before.<\/p>\n

A different and action-packed take on the original Alien<\/em> film, I give Aliens<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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Aliens Year: 1986 Rating: R Length: 137 minutes \/ 2.28 hours While I\u2019m sure a Ridley Scott sequel to his smash-hit, Alien (1979), would be fantastic by any stretch of the imagination, the choice to go with similarly-successful James Cameron in the director\u2019s seat helped to keep the franchise from becoming too stale. Of course, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,2],"tags":[569,70,371,373,13,8],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","category-4-0-stars","category-movie","tag-569","tag-aliens","tag-avatar","tag-james-cameron","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}